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      Dostoevsky’s Petersburg

      ⏱ 4 h🚶 4.5 km🍽 1📍 6 stops
      🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

      Sennaya Square, the courtyards of Crime and Punishment and the writer’s last apartment.

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        🏛 Sennaya Square
        A former market square with a metro station and shopping arcades — the heart of the “Dostoevsky” neighbourhoods.
        This is where the novel begins
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        Sennaya Square
        © Monoklon · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The square appeared in 1738–1739 on a wasteland with hay warehouses; in 1952–1992 it was called Peace Square.
        • In June 1831 the cholera riot broke out on Sennaya: a crowd wrecked the cholera hospital.
        • Until the mid-19th century thieves and swindlers were publicly punished here — Nekrasov described these “market executions”.
        • The guardhouse building of 1818–1820 was built by Vikenty Beretti to a design by Luigi Rusca.
        • The Church of the Saviour on Sennaya was demolished in 1961, and a metro vestibule was built in its place.
        • Today three metro lines intersect under the square.
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      3. 2
        🏛 “Raskolnikov's House”
        Гражданская ул., 19
        An ordinary apartment building at the corner of Grazhdanskaya and Stolyarny with commemorative plaques and a bas-relief on the corner.
        Those very 730 steps
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        “Raskolnikov's House”
        © Ludvig14 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The house was built in 1831 by the architect Yegor Zollikofer.
        • As in the novel, thirteen steps lead up to the attic of the house.
        • The wall carries two marble plaques marking the water level of the flood of 7 November 1824, in Russian and in German.
        • The bas-relief on the corner was unveiled on 7 July 1999, and the text on the plaque was composed by Dmitry Likhachev and Daniil Granin.
        • In 1970 the house was rebuilt: the semi-basement was removed and the cobbled courtyard was paved over with asphalt.
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      5. 3
        🏛 Lion Bridge
        A narrow pedestrian bridge over the Griboyedov Canal whose chains are held by four cast-iron lions.
        The most romantic little bridge on the Griboedov Canal
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        Lion Bridge
        © Sergpavl · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Lion Bridge
        © Екатерина Борисова · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Lion Bridge
        © Ermell · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The bridge opened on 1 July 1826; it was designed at the same time as the Bank Bridge.
        • It is one of three surviving chain pedestrian bridges in Petersburg, along with the Bank and Pochtamtsky bridges.
        • The lions were modelled by the academician Pavel Sokolov, and the cast-iron figures were first painted matte white “like marble”.
        • Until 1912 the bridge was also called the Mariinsky and the Theatre Pedestrian Bridge.
        • In 1882 the embankment was raised by a row of granite blocks, and the lions were lifted together with their pedestals.
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      7. 4
        🏛 Vladimir Cathedral
        Владимирский пр., 20
        A five-domed cathedral with a freestanding bell tower on Vladimirskaya Square.
        Dostoevsky’s parish
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        Vladimir Cathedral
        © Александровы АГ · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Vladimir Cathedral
        © Екатерина Борисова · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The church was built in 1761–1769, and the separate bell tower was completed by Giacomo Quarenghi in 1791.
        • In 1828 the funeral service for Arina Rodionovna, Pushkin's nanny, was held here.
        • Fyodor Dostoevsky was a parishioner of the church in the last years of his life.
        • The Baroque 18th-century iconostasis was moved here in 1808 from the church of the Anichkov Palace.
        • In 1932 the church was closed and a factory, Lenmashuchyot, was set up in it; it was returned to the Church in 1989.
        • Vladimirsky Prospekt and Vladimirskaya Square are named after the church.
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      9. 5
        🖼 Dostoevsky Museum
        Кузнечный пер., 5/2
        🎟 ticket
        The writer's last apartment: the study with a clock stopped at the hour of his death, the nursery and the drawing room.
        Where The Brothers Karamazov was written. From 12 November 2026 the museum closes for renovation — then we look at the house from outside.
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        Dostoevsky Museum
        © Monoklon · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Dostoevsky Museum
        © Davide Mauro · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Dostoevsky Museum
        © Александровы АГ · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • Dostoevsky lived here from October 1878 until his death on 28 January 1881, and wrote The Brothers Karamazov and his Pushkin speech here.
        • The writer had first briefly lived in this house back in 1846.
        • The museum opened on 11 November 1971, on the 150th anniversary of Dostoevsky's birth.
        • The study is recreated from a photograph by Woldemar Taube, taken right after the writer's death in 1881.
        • The clock in the study belonged to the writer's younger brother Andrey Dostoevsky.
        • The one authentic item in the hallway is Dostoevsky's felt hat.
        • The exhibition is based on the collection of the writer's grandson, Andrey Fyodorovich Dostoevsky.
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      11. 6
        🧺 Kuznechny Market
        Кузнечный пер., 3
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        A snack at the market
        🍴 A covered market from the 1920s by Vladimirskaya metro: farm meat, dairy, pickles, honey, spices, fish. What to buy: curd cheese and sour cream at the farm stalls, honey and dried fruit with tastings, Ceylon tea in the shop on the second floor.

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